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High-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma presenting in a 28-year-old woman during pregnancy: a case report
Frédéric Amant1, Kristel Van Calsteren, Maria Debiec-Rychter
1Gynecologic Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute (LKI), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. frederic.amant@uz.kuleuven.ac.be.
Introduction:
To the best of our knowledge, soft tissue sarcomas have not prevously been reported as a complication during pregnancy.
Case Presentation:
A 28-year-old Caucasian woman was diagnosed with a transperitoneal sarcoma during pregnancy. Morphological, immunohistochemical, chromosomal and mutational analyses pointed towards a high-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma. Although surgery and chemotherapy are possible during pregnancy, we were unable to perform these in this case.
Conclusion:
The potential to treat gynecological cancer during pregnancy should always be assessed individually.